TEHRAN (Iran News) – Iranian Vice President for Science and Technology Sorena Sattari said that US sanctions have been a blessing for the country’s new technology-based firms (NTBFs).
“We cannot say that the sanctions have not been effective; they have brought many advantages for the NTBFs and created a good market for them,” Sattari said in an interview with the Persian-language Iran newspaper on Wednesday, reported Fars News Agency.
He added that start-ups in Iran sold products worth nearly $26.6 billion last year.
Sattari also said that Iran stands among the first 10 world states in many fields of engineering, including mathematics, construction and biotech, and enjoys the biggest start-ups in the region.
Last month, Sattari said that Iran was moving towards an oil-free economy with the help of Iranian NTBFs.
“The presence of over 5,000 NTBFs and a bigger number of start-ups in Iran is proof of the fact that, equipped with an active technology ecosystem, the country is on the right track to reach a technology-based economy, reducing reliance on oil revenues,” he said.
- source : Iran Daily
Marin Tomuta
date : 6 - September - 2020
Europe, Asia and US(though slower) are moving towards a hydrogen/solar energy economy and production. Using solar energy, hydrogen gas and oxygen gas can be extracted from splitting water, even salt water. The hydrogen gas can be used as fuel in power/electrical production and this can power an electrical grid of electric vehicles. It is wise to have a diverse economy and energy production. (Although biology depends nearly totally on the Sun.) Also many trusting and trusted partners and good relations with neighbors and even distant peoples. (Send messengers and accept messengers.) We are all human. We are all dependent on our star for life.
So we should integrate, synchronize and empathize with everything and everyone.
Peace internal and external.